Botanizing in the Borderlands
In the 1790s, Spanish naturalists traveled the vast realms of the Spanish Americas to seek out useful and commodifiable resources.
In the 1790s, Spanish naturalists traveled the vast realms of the Spanish Americas to seek out useful and commodifiable resources.
This article briefly retraces the history of a Florentine botanical museum as a reflection of changes in people-plant relations.
On the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, 1913, and the different stories it conveyed.
This essay discusses ways of thinking about botanic gardens that pay close attention to their particularity as designed spaces, dependent on technique, that nonetheless purport to present (and preserve) natural entities (plants).
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, John Cardina is interviewed on his recent book, Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly.
“Aftermath: Weeds and Wilding” is a collaborative eco-religious project seeking seeds of resilience and regeneration in the midst of disaster.
The article explores the circulation of environmental ignorance on Drimys winteri in European written sources in 1578–1776.
Written by cultural studies researcher Heike Hartmann, this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Ludwig Leichhardt: A German Explorer’s Letters Home from Australia” presents Dr. Leichhardt’s collecting of botanical specimens.
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Ludwig Leichhardt: A German Explorer’s Letters Home from Australia,” cultural studies researcher Heike Hartmann writes about the influence of indigenous knowledge on Dr. Leichhardt’s environmental observations.